Well said. I like to compare it to chess. Sure learning opening theory and mid-game tactics are great, but there's nothing wrong with asking "What's the best move in this specific situation?" What will happen is after you teach someone the best move, and most importantly why it's the best move, it creates pattern-recognition abilities in their mind in order to use the techniques learned from their question in a future situation.

I agree but kind of disagree. Let's take your point about the news. I've learned in life to embrace the chaos, not only does it make life more interesting but it allows me to adjust to any situation. It's a bit akin to Bruce Lee's 'Be Like Water' advice.

I watch Fox News and CNN because the "unbiased" news sources tend to try so hard at being objective they often won't call out the bad in a situation for fear of being biased. CNN will flat out tell you why 'Conservatives are evil', and Fox News will tell you all about the 'liberal agenda'. If you try to look past their nonsense you will find some good, legitimate arguments against the other side.

I mean, you can try to put yourself in a bubble and avoid the bad news, but life is a mix of bad news and good news, and better to go with the flow than control the waves.

To be honest, it was fair. When you see headlines like this: it makes it seem like the NBA is even more soft and trying to create a safe space. In other words, Silver was taking full blame for something that was discussed amongst the stars.

So are we not supposed to consider winning, the ultimate goal of basketball, as an important aspect of greatness anymore?

Think of it like this, if the GSW decided to trade any of their players (such as Durant, or Curry, or West, etc) for you (yes you), chances are you would be an NBA champion in a few months. You would, in essense, have a "ring" that the likes of Barkley do not.

To win a ring, no matter how good you are, requires a bit of luck. Until Jordan got Pippen, he could not get it done. Barkley was, in almost all instances, a lone soldier. When he was finally on a decent team, he was in the Jordan era. Here, Jordan had stopped Barkley, Shaq, Hardaway, Kemp, Mutombo, M iller, Mullen, Stockton, Malone, Ewing, etc from winning. The only reason Olajuwon and Drexler won was because Jordan took a LOA.

Shaq did not win until he had a top 5 NBA player on his team, who he admit, pushed him and allowed him to "lay back" while it happened. The point is the rings argument is idiotic and when people use it as an insult on Barkley my eyes roll.

Censorship? I mod on /r/Mindfulness, am I censoring people for spamming their particular blogs or YouTube channels?

I think the biggest myth people have about stoicism is passivity. Are you a slave? Be a good slave! Is the snow in your driveway bothering you? Just tolerate it! Is your child being hungry concerning you? You're being agitated too easily! Do you see how when you extend this logic to other parts of your life it makes you more of a lazy person than stoic one?

To give you another perspective, when Marcus Aurelius said:

At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: 'I have to go to work — as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I'm going to do what I was born for — the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?'

Would you say he wasn't being stoic or irritated by having to stay in bed? Why not stay in bed and huddle under the blankets and stay warm? Does it seem strange to you that Aurelius felt bothered if he didn't go to work?

The point is this, Stoicism is about being virtuous and ensuring you do what's best for you within your control, not about passivity, laziness, and indifference to life as it happens. To put it more colloquially, it's not about being the world's bitch and floormat.

Defeatist:"The Government is corrupt. I will always be broke and on the poverty line because the rich will keep us down and the Government will prevent us from achieving anything more."

Acceptance:"The Government is corrupt. If I want to strive for a better living for myself financially I will rely on myself to improve my skills and provide a value that everyday people will pay a premium for."

Back when billionaire Mark Cuban was starting a business, he had a secretary stole every penny from his company to the tune of $80k, basically, she had written herself checks from the company and dipped. After Cuban went to the bank they more or less told him to fuck off and he was out of luck.

He didn't sue the bank, spend years finding the lady, or quit his business. He accepted responsibility for what happened. He rolled up his sleeves and got to work and that $80k is chump change to him now.

What's my point in relation to this? People will never accept that they themselves are the problem. It's always the driver on the road that's bad, their partner is the reason they broke up, their boss is the reason they're unhappy. The most successful people are people who accept responsibility and do something about it. People here will look at this quote and say "Oh no, not me, it's my mental illness that's making me do that" so they've given up before they've somehow disgnosed themselves with a disease that has no cure and has never been overcome in history, ever.

The grass is always greener. I work in an office but the work isn't exactly easy, that being said I get paid well and I can easily log OT if I feel like it, for example, if I feel like working on a project no one has touched yet I can get OT.

That being said, it's very unfulfilling. Yeah yeah, grass is always greener but I don't know, it's not that I'd want to go into retail, but if I worked at a gaming studio or ran the scoreboard for my favorite hockey team I feel like I might be happier.